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This Week's Liberty Update

This week’s edition of the Liberty Update, CFIF’s weekly e-newsletter, is out. Below is a summary of its contents:

Hillyer:  Reagan 101

Ellis:  Direct-Pay Medicine: A Free Market Approach to Healthcare Reform

Lee:  Obama, Three Years Ago This Week: "If I Don't Have This Turned Around in Three Years..." Senik:  The "Republican Establishment" Rides Again

Release:  Conservative Leaders Call On President, Congress To Pass Corporate Tax Reform

Podcast:  The Consequences of Pres. Obama's Refusal to Approve Keystone XL Pipeline

Jester’s Courtroom:  Lawyers Win Big in iLawsuit

Editorial Cartoons:  Latest Cartoons of Michael Ramirez

Quiz:  Question of the Week

Notable Quotes:  Quotes of the Week

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February 03, 2012 • 10:30 am

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Jester's CourtroomLegal tales stranger than stranger than fiction: Ridiculous and sometimes funny lawsuits plaguing our courts.
 
 
THE ISSUES  
   
Taxes & Economy
Health Care
 
ObamaCare Loses in Two Courts, not Just One
“Once you explain what’s in the bill, the American people of course like it.” ~Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – Nevada) “It’s going to be very, very exciting.  But we have to pass…
   
 
 
Energy & Environment
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Constitution & Legal
   
John Lott: More Guns, Still Less Crime
“I would ask gun control advocates one question:  name a single place in the entire world where murder rates fell after gun control…
 
Employment & Labor
Campaign Finance
Homeland Security
   
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Eric Holder
Attorney General Eric Holder has a morally serious job.  He must; he heads the only cabinet department named after one of the four cardinal…
Media Issues
Bill Keller should get real. The New York Times executive editor-turned-blathering columnist is singing the praises of Barack Obama’s “accomplishments” and “successes,” which is a lot like praising General Custer for…
Foreign Policy
President Barack Obama’s inept handling of Israel and the Palestinians has now prompted a United Nations debacle over Palestinian statehood.  With the UN Security Council now considering whether to subject the request to a vote before the entire…
Legal Reform / Tort Reform
NEW ORLEANS:  The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), meeting here this week for its annual meeting and policy summit, is justly known as a clearinghouse through which state legislators across the nation exchange helpful information about…
State of Affairs
A year ago the conservative movement was fired up for a year-long celebration of Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday. Well, it didn’t really last a year, but this coming Monday, February 6, the Gipper would have been 101, and the longing for comparable…
Education
The newest wave of cheating scandals is threatening to sweep away the reputation of one of the most famous education reformers from the last decade.  With pressure mounting for investigations into several academic miracles-turned-frauds, it is time…
Health Care
While ObamaCare creates armies of bureaucrats in the public and private sectors, a small but growing number of doctors and patients are using a simple solution to improve medical treatment while cutting out middle men.  When it was signed into law…
Immigration
Note: I host a weekly radio show on Thursday nights on WAVH-FM in Mobile, AL. Last week’s topic was Alabama’s controversial new law against illegal immigrants. Below is my opening monologue, slightly shortened and adapted into a news-column…
Technology & Telecom
As contemporary examples of malignant irony go, it’s difficult to top Google.  Recall Google’s ostensible corporate motto:  “Don’t be evil.”  According to Google itself, that extends beyond mere customer interaction: …
Question of the Week   
How many times in our nation’s history have two former Speakers of the House of Representatives faced off against each other for election as President of the United States?
More Questions
Quote of the Day   
 
"The [Indiana right-to-work law] is yet another indication that the American people understand that while unions serve a purpose, their political agenda is more about power and leverage than the rights of workers. The concept of the 'union shop' in which the government allows workers to be bullied and taxed into submission is repugnant. It also is the underlying factor behind the trend by which powerful…[more]
 
 
—Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary Magazine
— Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary Magazine
 
Liberty Poll   

What team are you supporting in the Super Bowl?